1-Chronicles - 17:19



19 Yahweh, for your servant's sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make known all these great things.

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Explanation and meaning of 1-Chronicles 17:19.

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O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.
O Jehovah, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou wrought all this greatness, to make known all these great things.
O Lord, for thy servant's sake, according to thy own heart, thou hast shewn all this magnificence, and wouldst have all the great things to be known.
Jehovah, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, to make known all these great things.
O Lord, because of your servant, and from your heart, you have done all these great things and let them be seen.
O Lord, because of your servant, in accord with your own heart, you have brought about all this magnificence, and you have willed all these great things to be known.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own (p) heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all [these] great things.
(p) Freely and according to the purpose of your will, without any deserving.

Servant's sake - In 2-Samuel 7:21, it is, for thy words sake, for the sake of thy promise made to thy servant.

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